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Fueled by Big Rounds, Edtech Funding Surges to $887M in First Half of 2017

Edsurge

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. The bull is back—or is it? Round Size.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020), you will probably have these characteristics: "You see roadblocks as opportunities, and you have tons of creativity that keeps you from getting bored. Zodiac animal: Rat Rat in Chinese culture is associated with affluence, wealth, and surplus. If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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Achieving Equity Through Systems, Strategies, and Educational Justice

edWeb.net

Located in the suburbs north of Seattle, and close to the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, the Northshore School District’s students are 60% White, 17% Asian, and 13% Hispanic, with another 9% identifying as mixed race. Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework. About the Moderator. Dr. Daniel A.

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A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

Edsurge

Graduation rates for first-time, full-time students more than tripled from 2008 to 2016. Things changed in 2001, when then-president Carl Nelson died unexpectedly, leaving the campus and its leadership in shock. Since those days though, Texarkana College has earned a new reputation. It was just like everything was fine and dandy.”

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Gaps in financial aid, funding contribute to growing number of Georgians with college loans and no college degree

The Hechinger Report

Since 2008, average tuition increased from $4,700 to $8,400. The recession in 2008 caused state tax revenue to plummet and accelerated a decline in higher education funding. In 2008, a Board of Regents study estimated the state could feasibly establish a needs-based aid program for $40 million that would benefit 26,000 students.

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A Call to Remake the Maker Faire

Edsurge

After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls. It was still recovering from the economic crash in 2001. Such projects foster collaboration, iteration and, of course, perseverance.

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Live and Interactive with Roger Schank on "Our Broken Education System"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. Many ILS graduates started or joined a wide variety of companies to build simulation-based learning by doing software.

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